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Colombo invented the "one more thing". Give credit where credit is due ;)
who?
Facebook Renames to Meta
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#892Facebook also broke the URL I use to read my feed in reverse chronological order today, so I've warned everyone I might go away.
It used to be companyurl/?sk=h_chr, which now just gives a message that something is wrong.
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I assume this just means that they'll require a "Meta" account instead of a Facebook account, and it will come with all the same problems as creating a Facebook account. Also, their "support" for sideloading, while better than nothing, requires a valid phone number or credit card number to sideload anything.
This. Whether it's linked with your other social media or not isn't the issue. And whether it's a "Facebook" account, "Meta" account, an "Oculus" account, or whatever, it's all still an account with Facebook and can be expected to have all of the baggage that comes with an account with Facebook.
I have an Oculus account since 2013 with none of this crap, just email/password, we should be able to use that as we always did.
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#894My god, if you get it, you get it. They are going all in on metaverse / have decided that the future of oculus is the primary long term bet, not facebook itself. And they have the money to make it so. This is incredibly scary, and probably a good investment.
My kneejerk reaction is this will probably waste a lot of their money without much traction. But I'm also happy about Facebook wasting a bunch of their money...
admittedly it s a much better investment of their money than investing in spying tech. The Quest is really great product
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#895My worry is that they are not thinking about how many ways this can go wrong. There are already iPhone apps that allows you to put on avatar and meet people in a 3D virtual world. According to DoJ these apps are haven for pedophiles. Nothing good happens in these apps. People with severe mental issues show up, try to hit up others and eventually end up destructing real lives. Initially, everything looks safe because…
According to DoJ these apps are haven for pedophiles. Nothing good happens in these apps. People said the same about the internet itself, then social media, then tinder, then tiktok. Honestly, people and government just put "haven for pedo's" on everything they don't like.
> people and government
So, just “people”?
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My kneejerk reaction is this will probably waste a lot of their money without much traction. But I'm also happy about Facebook wasting a bunch of their money...
My kneejerk reaction is that some projects with "meta" in the name might get into legal troubles out of the blue.
What about facebook getting into legal trouble here? There is tons of prior art and companies with the trademark. Either facebook buys them all, or find another name
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The keynote video redirecting to a Facebook login screen is hilarious.
Why? The keynote video is on Facebook, that's why it would be redirecting you to a login screen.
You don't need a facebook account to access many pages on their website, like public groups. The video could've been public.
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#898My god, if you get it, you get it. They are going all in on metaverse / have decided that the future of oculus is the primary long term bet, not facebook itself. And they have the money to make it so. This is incredibly scary, and probably a good investment.
Don’t like Facebook one bit, but Zuck is almost always spot on with his bets. So yes, incredibly scary as it has a high likelihood of succeeding.
The things zuck bought were already successful. It was more about stopping them from becoming too successful.
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#899I imagine when the branding is complete we'll get the following gem: Joking aside, in my view the branding (and branding ability) of the name change to Meta is impressive given their long term vision. However, I do get the feeling that Meta will aim to eventually become a household proprietary name and thereby water-down what can be considered one of the broadest, most abstract terms we're all familiar with.
there are already multiple companies named meta
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#900Sorry Zuckerberg, but the metaverse will NOT be a walled garden, tied to a social media company. Is the the internet, and more specifically, THE WEB itself as an immersive, distributed spatial ecosystem of worlds. The metaverse needs to be interoperable above all else, and this is unachievable with the equivalent of native, vendor locked apps controlled by an entity. The web already does this, as every site is govern…
> WebGPU, WebXR, WebAssembly, and WebTransport are the key foundational technologies to this future online space. This sounds like a narrow view focusing on software. Hardware is apparently the bottleneck here. A 3D game on a website is at best semi-immersive. You need headsets/AR glasses to get full immersion.
You needed a full screen to experience a website.
But then phones came
The metaverse is an idea. Immersion is in the brain. Theater was the first metaverse.